Alcohol leads to more violence than other drugs, but you’d never know from the headlines

Mon, 13/02/2017 - 20:35 — smashdracs

Mainstream media tend to report more stories about illicit drugs than alcohol.

Stories about illicit drugs are also more negative. The media is more likely to frame illicit drugs as dangerous, morally corrosive and associated with violent behaviour, while it frames people who use illicit drugs as irresponsible and deviant.